After completing this course, students will have a better understanding of:

• Chef resources
• Recipes and cookbooks
• How to test cookbooks
• Centralized management
• Scalability
• Managing data
• Automating runs

This course is intended for DevOps engineers wanting to learn Configuration Management with Chef.

None, but we recommend that students:

• Some prior experience writing code.
• Understand how to use a command-line text editor to edit files.
• Have a beginner-level experience navigating a Terminal, such as Powershell or Bash, and using it to perform basic file manipulations
• Have a basic understanding of system administration, such as what it means to install and configure packages and start services.

Using Chef resources

• Building blocks

Building Chef

• Recipes
• Cookbooks

Testing cookbooks

• Test Kitchen

System detail collection

• Ohai

Attributes

• Dynamic code

Workstation setup

Centralizing management

• Chef Server

Roles

• Simplification
• Scalability

Managing data

• Templates
• Advanced templating – passing in variables

Storing your code

• Repositories
• Intro to Git

Community Cookbooks

Automating Chef-client runs

Multi-node infrastructure

Power automation

• Chef Search

Environments

• Staging
• Production

Create user accounts on servers

• Databags